Yeah slowtiger, I know I'm being overly ambitious for a newbie. Maybe ridiculously so. It's just how I go about learning things, I guess. If I can figure out this little complicated bit, then I'm just that much further along. Heyvern, I would greatly apreciate a rig like that to at least study, and ...

Thanks. I'll see what I can do with these. I'm needing to do a non-uniform scale in the direction of the iris motion, to forshorten it around the 'curvature' of the eyeball. And I'm really trying to make minimal control points.

Thanks Fiziwig. I think that'll do the trick. Now all I need is the 'master control bone' script so that I can control the sublayer bone from my top bone layer.

Basically what I'm trying to do is scale some points, and then rotate the scaling bones. (I'm using the scaling as a scale and translate) Obviously this kind of rotation won't interpolate properly. So I've been trying to counter-rotate the layer to compensate. Or scale the layer and counter-rotate t...

I'm not sure I follow all that. Are you saying you have a script that allows me to translate, rotate , or scale a layer by a bone, and still have points on that layer bound to another bone? If so, I'd be very interested. I've been messing with AS for hours trying to accomplish anything near this.

I'm sure I've seen it somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it now.
Can you only bind either a layer or its points? Is there any trick to binding the layer to one bone and its points to another bone?

I figured as much, but I thought it would be helpful if there was a post that would come up on a search for bezier. There seem to be alotta threads complaining about this appearant shortcoming of AS.

Someone may have already discovered this, but I didn't find it in my searches of the forum. Anime Studio operates with bezier curves just like any other vector software! The only difference is that most other software automatically 'draws' the bezier handles for you. So all you have to do is draw yo...